page_title: Chaika (boat)
hierarchical_section_title: Chaika (boat)
caption_attribution_description: English: Ukrainian cossacks under the leadership of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny capture the Turkish sea-port of Caffa (Feodosia) in 1616. This city was the largest Turkish centre for the human slave trade, and the capture by the cossacks enabled many Christian men, women and children to be freed from a life of slavery. Woodcut from a 1622 book commemorating Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny. Українська: Здобуття Кафи (Феодосія) запорожцями на чолі з Петром Конашевич Сагайдачним у 1616 році. Гравюра з книжки "Вірші на жалісний погреб шляхетного лицаря Петра Конашевича-Сагайдачного" Касіяна Саковича 1622 року.
context_page_description: A chaika was a wooden boat that could have a mast and sail, a type of galley, used in early modern warfare and cargo transport by the:
  Zaporozhian Cossacks in the 16th–17th centuries in Ukraine on the Dnipro River and the Black Sea.
  Serbs in the 16th-19th centuries on the Danube, known as Šajkaši, under Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire and Habsburgs.
  Slovenes from the 16th to the early 20th century on the Drava River.
context_section_description: A chaika (Ukrainian: чайка, chayka, Polish: czajka, Serbian: шајка / šajka, Slovene: šajka or plitka) was a wooden boat that could have a mast and sail, a type of galley, used in early modern warfare and cargo transport by the:
  Zaporozhian Cossacks in the 16th–17th centuries in Ukraine on the Dnipro River and the Black Sea.
  Serbs in the 16th-19th centuries on the Danube, known as Šajkaši, under Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire and Habsburgs.
  Slovenes from the 16th to the early 20th century on the Drava River.
caption: 17th century woodcut showing Zaporozhian Cossacks in chaikas, destroying the Turkish fleet and capturing Caffa in 1616.
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